sectarianism

Examples of sectarianism in the following topics:

• Sect

  • Wherever people of different religions live in close proximity to each other, religious sectarianism can often be found in varying forms and degrees.
  • In some areas, religious sectarians (for example Protestant and Catholic Christians in the United States) now exist peacefully side-by-side for the most part.
  • Wherever people of different religions live in close proximity to each other, religious sectarianism can often be found in varying forms and degrees.
  • The ideological underpinnings of attitudes and behaviors labeled as sectarian are extraordinarily varied.
  • Sectarian violence refers to violence inspired by sectarianism.

• Wilmot Proviso

  • The result was a violent sectarian debate in Congress that forced political leaders to make numerous compromises to determine the slave issue in the newly acquired U.S. territories.
  • The Wilmot Proviso was killed in the Senate, but the debate it sparked revealed a fundamental divide between Northern and Southern politicians, which translated to a national sectarian split over the governance of new territories.

• The Spread of Public Education

  • Mann met with bitter opposition by some Boston schoolmasters who strongly disapproved of his innovative pedagogical ideas and by various religious sectarians who contended against the exclusion of all sectarian instruction from the schools.

• Educational Reforms

  • Mann met with bitter opposition from some Boston schoolmasters who strongly disapproved of his innovative pedagogical ideas and from various religious sectarians who argued against the exclusion of all sectarian instruction from the schools.
  • Prior to nineteenth-century reform, education was often the province of sectarian religious institutions, as evidenced in the religious bent of this popular textbook.

• Iraq

  • Violence against coalition forces and among various sectarian groups soon led to the Iraqi insurgency, strife between many Sunni and Shia Iraqi groups, and the emergence of a new faction of al-Qaeda in Iraq.

• Early Public Schools

  • Horace Mann was an influential reformer of education, responsible for the introduction of common schools—non-sectarian public schools open to children of all backgrounds—in America.

• Jefferson's Agrarian Policy

  • Furthermore, state-formation out of the Louisiana territory would become a major issue for the federal government towards the mid-nineteenth century as debates over the establishment of free versus slave states initiated a sectarian divide in Congress that led to the Civil War.

• The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • The Iraq War is a conflict that occurred in Iraq from March 20, 2003 to December 15, 2011, though sectarian violence still continues.
  • The United States was not prepared for a long period of occupation; it was also not prepared for the inevitable problems of law and order or for the violent sectarian conflicts that emerged.

• Conclusion: The Increasing Inevitability of War

  • The Wilmot Proviso sparked sectarian debate in Congress that forced political leaders to make numerous compromises to determine the slave issue in U.S. territories.

• The Louisiana Purchase

  • State-formation out of the Louisiana territory would become a major issue for the federal government toward the mid-nineteenth century, as debates over the establishment of free versus slave states initiated a sectarian divide in Congress that eventually led to the Civil War.